Farmers in Serenje have urged politicians to desist from politicizing the fertilizer issue.
The farmers who have been spending nights at the bus station waiting for their allocations of fertiliser complained to the District Agriculture Coordinator (DACO) Kennedy Mulenga, that some members of the opposition political parties were mocking them over the delayed arrival of the commodity.
Mr. Justine Mwape of Muchinka area said politicians were laughing at them saying they deserved to suffer in order to obtain agriculture inputs because they have allowed the MMD to continue ruling.
He said it had been unfortunate that the fertilizer issue had become political when it was a cross cutting issue.
The farmers appealed to government to quickly clear them with their allocations so that they could apply the commodity in their fields.
Another farmer, Mr. Noble Chita said the delay had adversely affected the crops in the fields which would consequently affect the yields.
And district commissioner Stanley Chibwana, has said some more fertilizers have arrived to cater for the farmers who already paid for the commodity.
Mr. Chibwana said 2000 by 50kg bags of top dressing and 4000 by 50kg bags of basal dressing arrived by a Tazara wagon and was being offloaded at Tazara railway station.
He said the 2000 bags of urea completes the allocation for the district while 500 more bags of D-compound was still being expected to complete the allocation.
Mr.Chibwana appealed to the farmers to allow Nyiombo Serenje office off load fertilizer today so that distribution can be done.
Meanwhile the DACO said over 4000 farmers in Serenje had so far received fertilizer since the distribution started this season.
Mr.Mulenga said his office received money from farmers according to the allocation given adding that no farmer who paid for the fertilizer would be left out.
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True! To some extent!
Pliz have mercy on the poor farmers!
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why??
LT need to bring serious topics
the farmers voted for nyama soya. nivao ma boyi.
Tionge
Mercy! No mercy now dear! They have to wait till 2011 in good time for free fertilser and sugar distribution
Bloggers muli fast…I looked at the screen and there was no comments…tried reaching for the mouse…awe sure bana clicka kale anyamata! There is no ladies first sure? :d
correction: there were no comments
bambuya bachula mwebantu give them what they want
wasekele mwanamutapi :))
Morning bloggers, maybe today should just be a day of laoughter, what do you think.
why mock farmers ba opposition naimwe.
THEY HAVE REAPED WHAT THEY SORED.
As a kasai, never mind my spellings, I meant inseko mwebakwesu
I find this topic useless
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the picture realy potrays mockery,please farmers dont down tools,its you and your family….although RB’S GVT is still below par!!, Problems everywhere;soccer,copper,agric,tourism,airline,police camps,courts!!! name it….
Keyser,
I just made a similar comment though a little rusty, awe sure LT deleted but am also finding these topics 😮 😮
Ba LT where is this news coming from ? No mention of the town whatso ever only towards the end a serenje based firm is mentioned so we dont know this DACO which district he heads. This is very bad reporting please improve twapapata.However these are the true followers of RB so let them have a test of what RB is all about.
Ok people!
Am hitting the sack…after 3am….see y’all later
Keep blogging^:)^
#15 I agree with you. Anyone with a joke please?
as if the opposition were going to do something different. some of the fellows in opposition have being in government before and did nothing for the poor. who do they want to cheat. liars and large mouthed. [-([-(
A Indian boy goes to his mother one day with a puzzled look on his face. “Say Mom, why is my bigger brother named Mighty Storm”?
“Because he was conceived during a mighty storm”, she said.
Then he asked “Why is my sister named Cornflower”?
“Well your father and I were in a cornfield when we made her”, she replied. He then asked “And why is my other sister called Moonchild”?
“We were watching the moon-landing when she was conceived”, the mother replies.
The mother paused and said to her son… “Tell me, Torn Rubber, why are you so curious”
Elo lwanya nomba!!
hoo The pictures are awesome
truely Zambian
This is serious, how on earth can this be? For crying out loud, we are being mocked by our own?
Very funny #22, here is one
Many Zambians have been travelling abroad to seek
greener pastures. Many are nurses who eventually take
their husbands with them. Unfortunately, these men
can’t find decent jobs and find themselves doing the
rat race or funny jobs just to make ends meet.
So one of them finds a job as a zoo attendant.
But as there are not many wild animals in UK zoos,
the institution decides to hire people and have them
pretend to be zoo animals – dressed in real animal
skins so as to keep zoo attendance figures up.
Our Zambian friend happily takes up one of the jobs
dresses up in a monkey skin doing all sorts of
acrobatics swinging from tree to tree.
As he is busy entertaining people, he accidentally
falls in a lions den. The lion roars so loudly that
the “Monkey” shouts Mayoooo, Mayooo nafwa ine! Then
the lion approaches the ALMOST DEAD “monkey” and says
‘Witiina sana, naine ndi wa pa Zed!” Bonse twaba muli
imo ine.
It was such a dramatic event that on that day ticket
sales almost doubled!!
Yet till now, nobody knew that those animals were
well and trully Zed guys!
#22 Jumbo
Why was he named torn rubber? What happened with the rubber?
#26,27..kasai kanko,
muntu wandai kwena wansekesha,awe yikali iyo,:d:d,ni zee.
Kasai Kanko
Thats a good one!!
#26,27,kasai kanko,muntu wandi kwena wansekesha,awe yikali iyo,:d:d..ni zee.
TWANAKANENU BA POWER HUNGRY POLITECIAN. :d/:d/
these are the consequences of getting sugar from Nyama Soya for lutuku
#26/27, Should we then conclude that the monkeshy human being were Bembas from the way he cried? :-w:-w
Let them wait in vain, there is no more fertilizer. It serves them right for not knowing how to vote.
=)) You voted for Nyamsa Soya not so? it saves you right, next time Vote wisly..=))
Dont mock us for voting for a better candidate. The way people talk, as if there was a better candidate than RB.
OK who did you want us to vote for, if not RB? Who?
Come on if there are no details then don’t report the story, who is mocking and how, it’s not enough to say “opposition politicians are mocking” ala that sounds like paranoia
“Mr.Mulenga said his office received money from farmers according to the allocation given adding that no farmer who paid for the fertilizer would be left out.”
This is what we call poor planing other people have started harvesting and you are talking of distribution of fertilizer now. What are your priorities?.. Tours!!!!
Iwe ka LT shut up
Its not easy to amke an informed decision when you are in the rural area.You are cut off from so are not expossed hence taken advantage of all the time.We must forgive our colleagues and hope bit by bit they will learn their lesson.
#27 kasai..
You are really funny…ati iam also Zedian.
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27. Kasai Kanko , siuvela iwe. Wanisekesa mbambo kubaba =))=))=d>
Iwe Lisa. I can not understand you think a story highlighting suffering should not be on LT. Please help me understand than just saying this is a poor story.
Twa blogger naifwe, ku joina bakamba. Twalalolela fi ‘welcome’…
Where is suga daddy now?
EFYO NDE PAPA NAINE,SURELY WHERE IS SUGAR DADDY?
The laughing by the oopposition is very alright and healthy. It is meant to help the said farmers to vote wisely next time.
Why must they continue queuing for fertiliser by sleeping on bus stops when a would-be efficient possible opposition political party GRZ can do a far much better job.
LEt the farmers not deviate from what is at hand, but focus on getting President RB Banda’s government to give them the fertiser.
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LT 2008 Award Winner. =; for Zambia in 2011.
No worries farmers. Just wait until another two years. :d:d:d
OOpps! Just wait another two years farmers.
Poor farmers,4give them 4 they did not know what they was voting 4.
HONESTLY speaking can you vote for nyamasoya icinyamunyamu.Thats why i chased i relative who came from the village who voted for nyamasoya.He dont know how to read and write but iam an accountant with a good job
Kasai kanko,you are a crazy fellor…..you have made my day,its been a good laugh.
It is unfortunate that the government is failing the people who voted for them. My dear MMD you are in office because of these same people who are spending nights in the cold!
Have mercy on there poor families. Oh, It has just clicked my mind that it is the straightedge that the govt has so that farmers do not send children to school and produce grade 7 farmers instead of maize, who in return will give them votes in 2011. Come 2011, MMD will have votes in Serenje. You will not remember me but my words!
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